John Cleese

John Marwood Cleese (27 October 1939-) was an English actor, comedian, and political activist. He was born in Weston-super-Mare, Somerset, England in 1939, and he started his career as a scriptwriter and performer on The Frost Report before co-founding Monty Python during the 1960s, starring in their comedy sketches and their movies. Cleese also became a political activist, voting for the Labour Party before joining the UK Social Democratic Party upon its foundation in 1981. During the 1987 general election, Cleese recorded a nine-minute party political broadcast for the SDP, doing so in a more humorous tone than other broadcasts. When the UK Liberal Democrats were founded, he became an active Lib Dem, epparing in 1997 and 2001 broadcasts for the party. While he was a staunch liberal who supported Barack Obama, criticzed Donald Trump, and was even offered a life peerage in 1999 as a Lib Dem, he was a vehement supporter of Brexit, expressed interest in voting for UKIP, and claimed that London was "no longer an English city" due to its increasing multiculturalism. He decided to emigrate to Saint Kitts after the Brexit referendum.